MEME
"These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded.
Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish."
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-2 (IT'S SO AWESOME AND HILARIOUS.)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights (about 7 chapters in I wanted to KILL MYSELF)
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace (the best part of this one was writing down all the vocab words I didn't know and being like BWZUH?)
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife (it's on my shelf being all like, ALLIE READ ME)
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
Zatoichi
The Kite Runner (I cried like NO OTHER during this book)
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Quicksilver Exposition
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World (uuuuugh.)
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King (it's one of those "I started and then got distracted by LIFE" books)
The Grapes of Wrath (more uuuuuugh)
The Poisonwood Bible (it just wasn't engaging enough for me.)
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables (I'm guessing seeing the musical like, three times doesn't count?)
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States (I WILL FINISH IT I PROMISE.)
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita (trust me, this is incredibly disturbing to read when it's 8 in the morning and you're barely awake, cos suddenly you just realize HOLY SHIT HE'S IN LOVE WITH A TWELVE YEAR OLD EWWWW.)
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye (and I don't care what anyone says, it's boring.)
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
Also, as a fun fact, I am now off crutches. Hooyah.
Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish."
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-2 (IT'S SO AWESOME AND HILARIOUS.)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights (about 7 chapters in I wanted to KILL MYSELF)
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace (the best part of this one was writing down all the vocab words I didn't know and being like BWZUH?)
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife (it's on my shelf being all like, ALLIE READ ME)
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
Zatoichi
The Kite Runner (I cried like NO OTHER during this book)
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Quicksilver Exposition
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World (uuuuugh.)
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King (it's one of those "I started and then got distracted by LIFE" books)
The Grapes of Wrath (more uuuuuugh)
The Poisonwood Bible (it just wasn't engaging enough for me.)
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables (I'm guessing seeing the musical like, three times doesn't count?)
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States (I WILL FINISH IT I PROMISE.)
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita (trust me, this is incredibly disturbing to read when it's 8 in the morning and you're barely awake, cos suddenly you just realize HOLY SHIT HE'S IN LOVE WITH A TWELVE YEAR OLD EWWWW.)
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye (and I don't care what anyone says, it's boring.)
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
Also, as a fun fact, I am now off crutches. Hooyah.